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The following table shows the Department's expenditure on publishing over the last four completed financial years.
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The Department commissions public relations companies through two routes:
The Department's own public relations (PR) framework established in compliance with European Union procurement directives. The framework agreement does not guarantee any work to suppliers. Some of the companies on the framework have not had any contracts with the Department during the past five years; others may have had several contracts across different campaigns.
The Central Office of Information (COI) PR framework established in compliance with EU procurement directives.
The following table shows the Department's expenditure over the last four completed financial years on public relations consultancies.
| Department expenditure on public relations consultancies 2005-09 | ||||
| £ | ||||
| 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
| Notes: 1. The above expenditure includes additional expenditure made directly by NHS Connecting for Health (part of the Department of Health), but excludes any expenditure by Arms Length Bodies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies. 2. Expenditure through COI PR services includes work carried out by COI's regional PR team and PR agencies on the COI roster. 3. The above expenditure includes both fees and costs i.e. fees and expenses to cover time worked by agency staff and costs incurred during the work. Costs may include items such as: design, printing, venue hire, photography, travel and postage. However, it is not possible to extract a more detailed breakdown from Department of Health's financial reporting system. | ||||
The following table shows expenditure on health promotion campaigns commissioned from other organisations by the Department over the last four completed financial years. These figures represent communications activities but are not split into the individual categories as per departmental expenditure, as these records are not held centrally by the Department and to identify them would be to incur disproportionate cost.
| Campaign | £ | |
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To consortium of British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK | ||
| (1) Under section 64. | ||
Records for consultants, professional training and other activities are not held centrally and would incur disproportionate cost to identify.
Health Services: Hertfordshire
Mr. Heald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS (a) health visitors, (b) nursery nurses, (c) support workers and (d) midwives there were working in Hertfordshire in each year since 2006. [296816]
Ann Keen: The information requested is shown in the following table.
Heart Disease
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of people aged (a) 18 years and over, (b) 60 years and over and (c) 85 years and over who were diagnosed with a heart condition in (i) England and (ii) Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority in each year since 1997. [298142]
Ann Keen: This information is not collected routinely. Data are collected on the prevalence of heart disease through the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) for all ages (but it is not broken down into 18 years and older, 60 years and older and 85 years old and over).
The number of cases (and percentage prevalence) is reported as follows through QOF for England and Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority (SHA). The data are only available from 2004.
| Quality and Outcomes Framework, heart disease prevalent cases and percentage prevalence | |||||
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | |
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